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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global
context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist
modernizing movements. It also explores how Asian agency has been
central to the development of modern Buddhism, and provides
theoretical reflections that seek to overcome misleading East-West
binaries. Using case studies from China, Japan, Vietnam, India,
Tibet, Canada, and the USA, the book introduces new research that
reveals the permeable nature of certain categories, such as
"modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. In the book,
contributors recognize the multiple nodes of intra-Asian and global
influence. For example, monks travelled among Asian countries
creating networks of information and influence, mutually
stimulating each other's modernization movements. The studies
demonstrate that in modernization movements, Asian reformers
mobilized all available cultural resources both to adapt local
forms of Buddhism to a new global context and to shape new foreign
concepts to local Asian forms.
"Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary
Indonesia" takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis
in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world.
Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women
recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary
diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres,
also performed by women, flourishes. Based on unique and revealing
ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's "New Order"
and continuing into the era of "Reformation," the book considers
the powerful role of music in the expression of religious
nationalism. In particular, it focuses on musical style, women's
roles, and the ideological and aesthetic issues raised by the
Indonesian style of recitation.
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